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Monday November 17, 2025. 06:49 PM
An Indiana state senator who didn't fall in line with Trump's redistricting scheme found himself on the receiving end of a swatting stunt. Just hours after the former president publicly called him out, deputies were dispatched to Sen. Greg Goode's home in Terre Haute after...
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With the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under threat and food insecurity among Americans rising, many folks who have the means and who want to help out have been donating to their local food pantry. While food pantries and food banks are not the ultimate...
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Swedish engineer and musician Mattias Krantz recently bought an octopus from a grocery store, saving it from becoming someone's dinner. Instead of ending up on a plate, the incredibly lucky (and talented!) octopus, which Krantz named Tako, fulfilled another extraordinary,...
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Citizen scientists can help track the progress of a new population of tortoises in the Galapagos with the Giant Tortoise Initiative on Zooniverse. Finches may have been the key to Darwin's theory of natural selection, but giant tortoises are arguably the symbol of the...
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Last week, Amazon and Perplexity had a major falling out when the e-commerce giant sent a sharply worded legal demand letter to the AI company, demanding changes in the way Perplexity’s shopping agent works. The background story is that Perplexity has a function in its...
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For better or for worse, the NUMA node is the abstraction used by the kernel to keep track of different types of memory. How that abstraction is used, though, is still an active area of development. Two patch sets focused on this problem are currently under review; one...
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Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend — and perform at — the most magical music festival I've ever experienced, Sidepony Express. The three-day festival has been held (almost) every November in Bisbee, Arizona, since 2012, and while its grown since its early...
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A few days ago, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company, announced the winning flavor in his recent campaign to create a dessert to raise awareness about justice for Palestine and to call for 'a permanent peace in Palestine.' — Read the rest The post...
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Gary K. Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit in his novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? on which the hit 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit was based, says he has re-gained from Disney full ownership rights to Roger and the other characters from his book. — Read the rest The post...
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TL;DR: Snag yourself this 13-inch 2024 MacBook Air M3 for just $1,049.99 (reg. $1,499).  Everybody knows that the best Black Friday deals happen early. But why wait for those when you can get this refurbished 2024 MacBook Air M3 with two Thunderbolt ports, a headphone jack,...
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I know this gets thrown around a lot, but in this case, there was literally a Black Mirror episode about this. With the AI bubble continuing to swell and venture capital-backed tech bros continuing to throw shit at the wall to see what sticks in the vain hope of averting...
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Welcome to the venn diagram segment where Japanese anime fantasy and thronesey, ringsy Western realism overlap; they nailed it. The fans seem pleased and anxieties can move to scripting and story issues. Images released on Monday on the Nintendo Today app offer a sneak peek ...
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Believe it or not, this isn't an Any Austin thing this time. Game publishers like to throw around the term 'living, breathing world' almost as much as they like layoffs. For my money, though, the game with the best actual claim to that title is still  Red Dead Redemption 2. ...
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Intelligence officer Summer Worden claimed that her astronaut wife, Colonel Ann McClain, had illegally accessed her bank account from the International Space Station. But a crime so fascinating it might be science fiction turned out to be just that, and Worden has now...
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Every so often, I stumble across a project that makes me go, 'Yeah, that's really impressive, but why would you spend your limited time on God's earth doing that?' The slow resurrection of Concord, Sony's $400 million flop and the biggest gaming failure in recent memory, is...
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An auction of Holocaust artifacts, including letters from the dead and Nazi administative documents, was called off in Germany after complaints from survivors. Poland's foreign minister said the 'offensive' event was a scandal and that he and his German counterpart had made...
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Ah, Metroid, the red-armored stepchild of the Nintendo IP stable. 2021's Metroid Dread was pretty good as an appetite-whetter, but the entry fans have really been waiting for is Metroid Prime 4. Over the course of nearly two decades since the excellent Metroid Prime 3, the...
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Debian developer Simon Josefsson has announced the Debian Libre Live Images project, to allow installing Debian without any non-free software: Since the 2022 decision on non-free firmware, the official images for bookworm and trixie contains non-free software. The Debian...
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New research from Immersive Labs reveals a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. While nearly every organization (94 percent) believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. According to Immersive’s analysis, average...
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Considering how most of their recent military innovations and AI-powered robots have performed, I wouldn't sweat it, but according to The War Zone, Russia has a new submarine that can launch nuclear-capable torpedoes. The Khabarovsk is described by the Russian Ministry ...
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